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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signaled its offensive against Hamas could next target the south, where most of the population has taken refuge.

Israel’s purported proof of Hamas command center under al-Shifa hospital is seen as ‘anticlimactic’ as bombardment continues across the Gaza Strip, leaving only 4 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants with access to safe drinking water.

The Israeli military has said it is "close to dismantling" Hamas military infrastructure in northern Gaza. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid to Gaza has been paused due to lack of fuel. DW has the latest.

Government funding: President Biden overnight signed into law the bipartisan bill to keep the government funded for the next several weeks. The legislation did not provide funding for aid to Ukraine nor aid to Israel. A longer-term government funding bill must now be passed in order to head off a possible government shutdown early in […]

Israel has announced that it will let two fuel trucks enter Gaza per day for "minimal" operation of water and sewage systems. Telecommunications providers said networks were "partially restored." DW has the latest.

A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti, trapping women, children, and newborns until police rescued them, as reported by the medical center's director, who sought help via social media.

Ethiopia on Wednesday "welcomed" the announcement that the US Development Agency (USAID) would resume the delivery of food aid throughout the country, suspended in June, following the conclusion of an agreement to monitor aid distribution.

The lead U.S. development agency plans to restart food aid deliveries for millions of people across Ethiopia in December, five months after it took the extraordinary step of halting its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials.

Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis

And in a signal that Israel’s ground invasion is about to expand in the south, Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza said they received evacuation notices Thursday.